RUSTON, La. – The 18th-ranked Old Dominion baseball team hit its way past Florida Atlantic with an 11-2 win to kick off the Conference USA Championship at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park in Ruston, Louisiana. The fourth-seeded Monarchs (39-14) notched 16 hits and led wire-to-wire following a two-run bottom of the first before blowing the game open with seven runs in the seventh.
"The seventh inning has been a good inning for us this year," head coach Chris Finwood said. "Our guys just kept grinding in the batter's box. We let them off the hook a few times, and Hunter Cooley made some good pitches, but we finally got to him.